From the D Blog: Crafting Self-Evident Code in D

[Walter Bright]

On 10/26/2023 2:30 AM, John Colvin wrote:
> Good talk.
> 
> Many very clever people would achieve more if they tried to understand why a v. 
> experienced developer would care to spend so much time talking about what might 
> appear to be such basic points.
> 
> The key challenge: If this stuff was so obvious & everyone did it or it didn't 
> matter so much that they didn't, why would Walter care about it so much?

Like user interfaces in an airplane cockpit, it all looks obvious. But, as I was 
told by the lead engineer for the 757 cockpit, every aspect of it was paid for 
with somebody's blood.